The City of Cape Town says it has made more than 32 000m² of land available for social housing in the past six years. But civic organisations say fewer than 20 housing units have actually been built. Moneyweb CTInnerCity
The City of Cape Town says it has made more than 32 000m² of land available for social housing in the past six years. But civic organisations say fewer than 20 housing units have actually been built. In July 2017, the city announced that 11 pieces of public land in the city centre, Woodstock and Salt River would be used to develop social and transitional housing.
“This property – and the provincially owned Helen Bowden Nurses Home – were subject to orchestrated building hijackings by Ndifuna Ukwazi’s Reclaim the City campaign in early 2017, following the government’s announcement of plans to develop social housing there.” Read:Province gives up land around Cape Town’s notorious unfinished freeway Vos said the building’s hijacking was followed by “subsequent calls for financial contributions to ‘sustain and build’ the illegal occupation”.
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